Teacher Vlog: A Little Kindergarten Nostalgia

happy Monday morning um it is Monday I just walked in still have my jacket on it is freaking cold Oh Lord the so called I think they were saying like it was like 26 degrees like I probably saw maybe one or two ish days like I'm not really that cold okay anyways so I just got in turning on my lights did y'all even notice that I put my Christmas tree over here I may be jumping the gun but it could be like a Harry Potter tree right like so I put the little Harry Potter scarf like I just tied it up and I need to get some wiring and tie it up correctly because it does not look like a bow at all but it's super cute like I love my tree up here so it looks adorable I didn't write my message up this morning so I need to go ahead and do that and I'm not singing my jacket off it's freaking cold so I'm gonna do my morning message this morning so today is mindset Monday so I did mindset Monday what can you say instead of I don't have enough time I truly believe like my kids are constantly saying I don't have enough time I don't have enough time and I feel like you know in my head it's an excuse like they're just making excuses for themselves and not wanting to take ownership of responsibility that they need to learn how to cut back time and start you know saying more focused and saying okay well if I have this done you know and I know I get it there 9 and 10 years old but I do want to start building in some type of that responsibility and making them understand you can't keep making excuses for yourself so hopefully we'll change our mindset instead of say us saying that we don't have enough time maybe that we could say that we can work together and really stay positive and stay focused and start breaking down some of those things that we need to get done so so I've been the world's worst blogger today because I haven't picked up my camera at all today it's been a really busy day kind of hmm it's been a busy day so I've been getting some things together trying to get some things cleaned up I have like a hot mess to be honest and I really need to get some papers graded so I'm probably gonna have to take some of this stuff why is it that everything is still a mess it doesn't matter how the world is children's children's children's anyways how was everyone's weekend I hope you had a really great weekend mine was fantastic I didn't really do as much as what I was hoping for is like school school stuff and that's okay it's totally fine I need to set you down somewhere right now I'm kind of going through I actually got a lot of things filed away we only have six more days until and I feel like this chairs like and now I'm like all up in the way that's hilarious because we've been working so much with our data binders and really making sure everybody's this kind of situated did I tell you guys that I ended up switching out their data binders and I kind of moved their green work-in-progress folders they're inside their data binder only because wanted it to be that they had to come into the room and take out their data binders every single time so that they can look at their work in progress but that they're also looking at what it is that they're supposed to be doing so I have my like leveling it up Maps in there and they're getting started with that I had a few conferences working on that today and so looking more at very specific goals for each of the kids when they were coming and taking a seat with me so like if they know that they are working on important information then that's what they're their whole focus is on trying to figure out if I could come up with some type of a task card or something for them to explicitly work on for each of those individual skills so hmm I'm not really sure I literally have probably I think it's six days of school left before we have Thanksgiving break which I am so excited about so beyond excited about I think I'm excited for the break in general do you guys get the whole week off or do you only get like Thursday Friday off what do you get off leave me down into the comments below I want to know what you guys know I'm gonna have what do I get I get Wednesday I have conferences but this kids are not in school so I get Wednesday with conferences and then Thursday I have off Friday I have off and then Monday I have off so curious what is it that you have offered Thanksgiving break what are you gonna be doing for Thanksgiving break I'm not going anywhere I'm staying at home going to enjoy the time and yeah rest hopefully it's like rejuvenated right okay so I started putting some things up and I started like digging through some of my kindergarten stuff so I'm gonna sit down and share with you guys and kindergarten stuff that I have that are just some ideas that things that you could be doing and standards that you can be hitting for the common core and whoo sorry that you could be hitting with the common core so one thing that I really enjoyed doing and I did this as a whole group and then I actually had little different pictures that they would go and sort with partners so I was very much part of that whole scaffolding part so we read these and I actually kept them and these were little time for kids books and it was thin and now and I'm sure if you go somewhere on the internet you're gonna find something that says then and now about Thanksgiving but it was really cute because you were comparing the holiday then and now from what it was like back then then and now look at how cute and then I know just talking about the clothes that they were wearing and then that was the very end of it so what I did was we started talking about when I broke it down by pages so we'd read it by the page and I talked about what were some things that they did then and we would have like a big huge diagram so we made kind of connections of some things that we did that were the same and then we had things that they were very different and then I had little pictures that they actually went and they sorted on a Venn diagram with their partners so again just giving that scaffolding effect of what it is that they did then and what it is that it affected now then further when we went into writing I pulled out just writing and they were to write about something that the pilgrims did something that they did and something that is som the same so they had to be able to do it with together as a group partners and then they had to apply it and their writing by themselves so super super cute idea she's seeing oh my gosh look at the cute little turkey hi so it was a little gobble-gobble and then nothing of course would be Thanksgiving if you didn't make a really cool necklace with patterns which they enjoyed doing this too oh I love it love love love it if you are in the younger grades one of the standards is being able to compare the differences between then and now that's a great easy way of doing it because a lot of kids will be able to make some of those connections with it and it's something that will they can relate it back to what it is that they're doing so try it out see if you like it so I would do it as a whole group first having you sorted and putting them on student Senate's trips and kind of putting it on a bin diagram and then having them being able to sort some of the pictures and then at the very end have them go back and apply it in their writing it makes it very authentic for them so they're they're kind of they're talking about it they're seeing it they're moving it they're doing it and they're writing about it so try it out see if I won't if you like it okay so really quick also wanted to share one other thing so ok my planner you guys know how much I do love my planner unfortunately I haven't been loving it as much as what I have been loving it for fourth grade just because of how I am teaching and I don't really do much whole group wise and I do more small group um so I'm gonna try out something different and I saw something the way that might cause my partner teachers using my planer as well and I'm actually really liking how she's doing it but I figured I'd give it a go ahead go on how I need to try and use it and here's kind of where I am losing it so I'm using plan book calm to be able to put all of like my major like lesson lessons inside of and that's working out fine where I am starting to kind of um get a little bit lost is where I am not keeping track of things that I need to complete one I need to go back to having my zero inbox tonight my goal is to sit down with my email home and go back to having a zero inbox if you want to know more about zero inbox leave me a comment down below it is part of David Allen's book getting things done which is phenomenal if you have not read it yet it is a life changer I read it when my son was when my son was born my younger one and it completely revolutionized how I get things accomplished in life so now what I am doing let me see if I can okay so now what I'm doing is I'm creating a different type of header if you can see that that makes sense what's backwards to you probably okay so I have different headers now I have like top three school the LC which is the lettered classroom family and then I have social which then I kind of made it into TPT because I need to be a little bit better about putting some of those things up and then I made it into meals and then to do so I said I was going to break it down as things that I need to get accomplished in certain areas so I'm making it into more of a huge to-do list planning checklist to say okay yep I did do that okay I did add that and it can cross some of those things off because that's where I'm kind of getting behind on completing certain fact things that I need to complete because I don't really have a place to put it the other notebook that I typically keep is the more like a notes notebook which I'm not I don't do well when I have to carry around multiple planners I like just one planner and then being done with it so I'm hoping that this will solve some of my issues that I've been having instead of just using it as more of a actual school planning like planner where I actually have my lessons in it to more of a okay I'm gonna break down the different areas of things that I'm doing because let's face it I feel like teachers are just like all over the place we have so many different things that we're finishing it could be after-school activities it could be that your kids have something you know your husband is probably a traveler or something that you want to like log in there and this is a great way for you to be able to break down your tube dues and say okay this is what I need to tackle during this time this is what I need to tackle during this time I feel like sometimes too when you have a ton of to dues for a day and it's like ones that are all over the place for work for school for personal for meals just random to do is like you kind of lose focus of which ones you need to be accomplishing during certain times of the day so I know that if it's school stuff I'm gonna try to accomplish it during that time if it's for you know the letter classroom or for YouTube I have certain times of the day that I work on those types of things and then family and then meals and that kind of stuff are all in a whole other category by themselves so I wanted to throw this out and give this to you as a different idea just in case you were not loving the planner as much as what you wanted to love it you weren't able to fit in as much as your lesson plans or you started trying plan book calm when I release that video and if you haven't seen that I will leave a link to that so that you guys can go and check it out but definitely go out and try something a little bit different you know the planner doesn't have to be specifically how you know you can make planners into whatever you want them to be make it work for you so that's an idea if you wanted to try it out definitely try it I'm trying it out this week and see how much I like it so I'll let you guys know towards the end of the week how much I'm actually able to get accomplished so yes I am finally gonna hopefully get ready to go home I I have a cute few things that I'm trying to get make sure that I have it so that I can get accomplished when I get home another than that that's really about it I need to get light bulbs for my partner teacher she said she had light bulbs and I'm always forgetting to bring light bulbs to school okay I'm ready to go and see my kiddo I also need to work on a rubric and I will share this out with you guys too I'm working on a rubric for reading response journals because I feel like it's really important for me to start being very specific on things that I'm seeing and what I'm not seeing because I'm seeing a lot of things that I'm not that I really want to see and I'm not seeing it in their readers response so I'm gonna come up with some type of a rubric to help with their readers response so that they know exactly what it is that is expected of them and I'm feel like I want to make it on to like a little sticker form so that I could just put the sticker in their notebook and then just be able to kind of cross it off so I will definitely share that with you guys once I have that together and if I'm able to get it together tonight then I will share it with you guys tonight when I'm at home but if I don't so sorry I'll share it with you tomorrow but I hope you guys have a really really great evening sorry if this video was a little bit short or random or I don't know just a really hot mess I kind of felt like it was a little bit of a hot mess I'm not really sure anyways um six more days I'm super super excited by the time you're watching this it's only five more days so five more days and then I have a break which will be so much fun I would you guys like to see like some really like fun festive things let me know down in the comments below look if you want to see some really cool festive things I know some people don't like to watch those vlogs and you know hey that's your prerogative but if you are one of those that I would really like to know whether or not you enjoy kind of seeing some of the festivities that I do on the side not just being a teacher just being you know a teacher mom life whatever let me know and I will totally put some up because I have some really fun things that I have planned for Thanksgiving and December and I just can't wait to do it all because I just love it so much I just love it I love Christmas and Thanksgiving but I love Christmas so um I hope that you guys have a really really great evening by the way look at my outfit isn't it cute you see my little outfit how style I feel so stylish today okay so look look I just have a black shirt I think this was from inside about a long time ago this one's from Target but it was cute little vest um j.crew jeans and then PSW boots cute cute cute I feel stylish today so okay I'm gonna head let you guys go so that I can go home and see my babies and get some things done so I hope that you enjoyed this video if you did please make sure to give it a thumbs up I will talk to you guys tomorrow subscribe share it out and I will see you guys soon bye

Channel: The Lettered Classroom

Views: 9,559

Rating: 4.9658117 out of 5

Keywords: teacher, teaching, classroom, elementary teacher, teacherspayteachers, tpt, organization, classroom organization, classroom management, behavior management, classroom tour, tour, back to school, teacher fashion, what to wear, look book, kindergarten, thanksgiving ideas, classroom theme, holiday lessons, holiday, getting things done, ideas

Id: iAH4SsLdwmw

Length: 15min 56sec (956 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 15 2016